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THE Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences celebrated, on December 6 of last year, the hundredth year of its public existence. Occasion has been taken to issue some special publications, comprising a historical sketch of the Society and a résumé of the principal researches, a list of all papers, and another of members, since the commencement. The Society originated in a private one for study of science and history started in 1770 under the presidency of Ignaz von Born, who was not only an able scientist of the time, but an ardent freemason (as were many of his fellows). It is a curious fact, throwing light on the aims of this Society, that its publications were all in German, not in Latin, the usual scientific medium in Bohemia at that time. No one thought of using Bohemian for science. Now a considerable portion of papers appear in Bohemian, not always accompanied by a German résumé, through which some are rendered more accessible to the average linguist here.
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Science in Bohemia . Nature 32, 308–309 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032308a0
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